Friends and colleagues pay tribute to "dedicated and passionate" disability advocate Ted Dunstan, who this year became one of the oldest quadriplegics in the country, having lived in his wheelchair for 60 years.

The Indigenous Affairs Minister says he has referred an allegedly "fabricated email" he received to the Australian Federal Police, which contains allegations against the outgoing Northern Land Council CEO.

Exasperated peak Aboriginal bodies are repeating a call for a greater input into the Government's refresh of its Closing the Gap strategy, saying a formal request in a letter sent last month was ignored by all states bar one.

A teenager who was "mobbed" by up to seven sharks while spearfishing off the coast of Nhulunbuy was dragged to safety by a group of quick-thinking friends, who stemmed the bleeding for a harrowing two hours until emergency services arrived.

Accommodation for fly-in fly-out workers is a common sight in Western Australia's Pilbara. But now 'motels' are under construction for a different kind of FIFO — ghost bats. The artificial roosts are being built for up to 2,000 bats at risk of homelessness from mining.

One year since the royal commission into youth detention handed down its recommendations to overhaul the youth justice sector, the daily conditions experienced by young people inside Don Dale remain largely unchanged, advocates say.

Northern Territory Speaker Kezia Purick breaks her silence on allegations her office interfered in the formation of a new political party, claiming her most senior personal staffer acted without her knowledge.

A plan to overhaul Darwin's CBD by focusing on international students, boosting the economy and becoming a tropical city management hub is launched by the Federal and NT Governments as they sign a deal worth $200 million.

The families benefit fund, bankrolled by Japanese gas giant Inpex, will assist the Larrakia people to pay for educational and training expenses, help elders with the cost of living, and finance a funeral fund.

A Darwin water bottling company that received $10 million of taxpayer money may have used some of the public funds to pay its employees the superannuation it failed to pay them since the company was established in 2015.

Unionists mark the 80th anniversary of an iconic industrial dispute that influenced Australia's relationship with Japan, as Shinzo Abe becomes the first Japanese Prime Minister to visit Darwin since WWII.